Description

Bonfyre is a private, social communication app to connect and engage your project teams, employee groups, fellow event attendees, department or entire company, all in one place. Gather around!

-Chat feed - share chats, photos and videos -Access important information right at your fingertips -Share comments and feedback with your organization-Receive real-time updates so you’re always in the know-View agendas, participate in surveys, access event information and more

Bonfyre is free to download and use, with upgradeable plans for enterprise and event audiences. Upgrading provides access to powerful data analytics as well as dozens of customizable features like employee recognition, surveys, scavenger hunt puzzle tool, trivia games, photo fundraising and more.

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4.1

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Christina Iervoline

No Longer User Friendly I work for a major healthy snack company in NYC & we share a lot of photos! At one point, I was able to share/caption up to 10 at a time. After an update to the app, this was no longer available. Why is sharing more than 1 photo for Android no longer an option?! 5 stars from me if this feature returns!

Natalie Eggert

No landscape orientation Adjustment available for Android or ipad. Extremely annoying

Vulgaris Magistralis

Works great I use this to keep contact with my groups and it works great. I would like to see an addition to set custom notification sounds so I can tell the difference between normal text messages and notifications from bonfyre.

Teodor P. Marti

Much improved androids experience. Fast and easy. Used for several groups at school. A mute (less than ban) feature would be appreciated to mute those that violate a particular bonfyres rules where banning is too harsh.

Justin Padinske

Perfect for trips and concerts! A few of my friends don't use Facebook and we needed an app to share photos and messages during our adventures. It worked for everything we needed it to do so 5 stars!

Sarah Sexton

Love it Great app. Love it.

User reviews

Christina Iervoline September 13, 2016

No Longer User Friendly I work for a major healthy snack company in NYC & we share a lot of photos! At one point, I was able to share/caption up to 10 at a time. After an update to the app, this was no longer available. Why is sharing more than 1 photo for Android no longer an option?! 5 stars from me if this feature returns!

Natalie,
Sorry to hear you were frustrated by not being able to use the app in landscape mode. We are constantly reevaluating if it's the right time for us to take on the extra expense and hope to add it in the future.
If you have any other concerns and want a direct response, always feel free to reach us at hey@bonfyreapp.com

Vulgaris Magistralis April 3, 2016

Works great I use this to keep contact with my groups and it works great. I would like to see an addition to set custom notification sounds so I can tell the difference between normal text messages and notifications from bonfyre.

Hey Vulgaris, thanks for the feedback! We like this idea too and will try to work it into an update soon.

Teodor P. Marti February 15, 2016

Much improved androids experience. Fast and easy. Used for several groups at school. A mute (less than ban) feature would be appreciated to mute those that violate a particular bonfyres rules where banning is too harsh.

Bad for Nexus/Facebook Login I had high hopes based on the description. It seemed exactly what I was looking for; however, the app completely goes virus-looking-app-switching-tube TV crash screen crazy when I attempt to upload a photo. I've had NO issues with my Nexus in this way with any other apps, and it has me worried, along with all the requested permissions, whether or not this app is safe. It also does not give you the option to decline Facebook posting, which I reported to Facebook. I'm highly disappointed. 😔😫😞😒

Hi Jenni, sorry you had a bad first experience with Bonfyre. We haven't had any similar reports so it's hard to know what the problem might be. We'd be happy to investigate if you send a screenshot and errors messages you saw to support@bonfyreapp.com - we respond within a couple hours there. We'll work on posting why we ask for each permission.

Hi Karanbir, sorry to hear you had trouble exporting photos. Our email service was down for a few hours that day, but it has been working since then. We're not aware of any other issues with adding people or photos - feel free to email us at support@bonfyreapp.com for additional assistance!

Johnna Thomas April 22, 2015

Wont let me delete The app says I work in a totally different town than what I keep trying to put in. It also says to delete stuff to long hold and it should let me but it wont let me delete at all.

Johnna, we apologize for the experience. The company city is based on your company headquarters, not where you work - however we have found people want to enter the city where they actually work in so we're chaining this soon! And were you trying to delete a chat post or some other item? Email us at support@bonfyreapp.com for more help.

March 6, 2015

Painful Scrolling through posts, push notifications, shutting off icon in notification bar, and this is why app is so painful. Inquiry sent to support a little less than 24 hours ago. Two stars could drop to one but will be patient.

Doriano, sorry to hear you were frustrated by the push notifications. We wanted to let you know that in our last update we redesigned notifications to be more useful and you can also control how often you receive pushes for each different bonfyre (or turn them off completely). We're continuing to improve our notification system in upcoming releases

Xinni Cai August 5, 2014

Love the concept, execution could be smoother I really love the idea for the app!! I think it is great and is actually exactly what I was looking for: private sharing, not crazy emphasis on sharing with the public. There are small UI things that I'm not crazy about, like the big font, but otherwise it's a pretty app. However, the app doesn't run as well as I want it to, hence the 3 star rating. Firstly, I don't like that I have to send an invite via text rather than an app notification. Secondly, the app seems to take up a lot of computing power

Seems quite buggy Couldn't join a bonfyre I was invited to. Inviting another sends them a text but when they attempt to join it doesn't seem to work and there is no notification of failure or denial on the sender's UI. Hard to know if it's just down to unintuitive controls or if it just doesn't work. A great idea, shame it doesn't work. The app had trouble updating personal details as well.

Jcrewkamai @mail. Com I'm very happy to communicate with my friends to send me a message on the phone, fax or email me similar to the new friends to communicate with friends around the world, and the other hand is friends ship, and share our own place to stay in touch with the friendly staff will be a good time to time and I will be a good time for communication with my own friends around the world, and also communicate with friends and family, around the world, and the other hand is friends ship, and share our own place..

Great private photo and comment sharing app This app was used for communicating with my team during a marketing campaign. I think it's great....would have probably given it 5 stars if the app was available for download on my tablet also. Cheers!

What's New

*Fixed two nasty bugs that caused the app to crash

* We are excited to introduce the Bonfyre Activity Feed for Android! Our new Activity Feed shows you recent activity from all of your communities in one place so you can quickly catch up if you've been away

* New navigation! Our main app screen has been reorganized and cleaned up